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Fifty ________ of the city ________ burned down in the war.
- A.percents; was
- B.percent; was
- C.percent; were
- D.percent; have been
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A new report says only about half of all students in the main school systems of America’s largest cities finish high school. The report notes higher rates of graduation — over 70% —in areas surrounding the cities. Researchers studied high school graduation rates from the 2003, 2004 school year. They also identified the nation’s fifty largest cities. The largest, New York City, had a population of more than eight million. The smallest city was Wichita, Kansas. It had about three hundred and sixty thousand people.
Researchers used a system of measurement called the cumulative promotion index to find graduation rates. School officials in many of the cities studied said the resulting numbers were too low. That is because different areas use different methods to find graduation rates. Critics say many methods do not give a true picture of the number of students who leave high school before finishing.
Other studies have put the national graduation rate at about 70%. But experts agree that too many students are not completing high school. They estimate the number at more than one million each year. The report was prepared for America’s Promise Alliance. The private group aims to help children receive services they need to succeed.
General Colin Powell was chairman of America’s Promise Alliance when it was formed in 1997. He attended the press conference Tuesday where the report was released. He said studies have shown that the US must do more to educate the leaders and work force of the future.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings also spoke. She said the government will propose that states use the same methods when reporting graduation rates. Alliance officials also announced the start of a nationwide campaign to improve graduation rates. It is to include a series of meetings to be held in every state over the next two years. The meetings will bring together elected leaders, business owners, students, parents and education officials. They will develop plans to increase the number of Americans who finish high school.
【小题1】The author wants to tell us ___________.
A.too many Americans do not finish high school |
B.different methods to find graduation rates |
C.services American children need to receive |
D.the increase of the number of Americans who finish their high school |
A.there are 8,360,000 people in the US’ fifty largest cities |
B.Wichita in Kansas is the smallest city in the US |
C.50% of the people in the US don’t finish their high school education |
D.high school graduation rates in or near the biggest cities are higher |
A.situation | B.scene | C.image | D.mood |
A.secretary of Education Margaret Spellings didn’t believe that number from the report |
B.the government will stop using the cumulative promotion index to find graduation rates |
C.secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced the start of a nationwide campaign to improve graduation rates |
D.the low graduation rates should be paid attention to by the government and the society |
Many rural areas in the United States have no doctor. Some medical schools are trying different ways to treat the problem . One idea is to educate doctors in smaller communities and hope they stay. Dr. William Cathcart-Rake heads a new program at the University of Kansas in the Midwest.
“We need more doctors. There’s somewhere like a quarter of all of our physicians in Kansas who are sixty years of age or older. So we need to be replacing physicians, too.”Says Dr. William Cathcart. He also says medical students from rural areas now typically study in Wichita or Kansas City, two of the biggest cities in Kansas. They say, “You know, I really have every intention of coming back to rural Kansas,”but they meet a soul mate, they get married, their soul mate happens to be from a big city and we never see them again. They get captured in the big city. Hopefully, if we train them in smaller communities, they can meet the future spouses here , they can network here, and they have those connections which can hopefully be lifelong.
The program is based in Kansas’ tenth largest city , Salina, home to about fifty thousand people. Salina is about a three-hour drive from Kansas City, past fields of corn, soybeans and cattle.
Student Claire Hinrichsen grew up in a town of about six hundred people. She attended the University of Kansas, or KU, as an undergraduate. One reason why the chose the Salina program is because of the size. There are only eight students—the smallest medical school in the country. Classes are taught by professors in Salina or on a video link from Kansas City or Wichita.
Students who complete the four year program will then do their residency training in a small community in the surrounding area. One place a resident might work is the Clay Center Clinic, where Dr. Kerry Murphy is a family physician.
Rural doctors generally serve older, poorer patients. Going into a specialty in a big city can mean better working hours and more money to pay off student loans.
The Salina program will pay tuition for each year that students practice in a rural area in Kansas.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “spouses”in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.Wives husbands. | B.Homes. | C.Families. | D.Physicians. |
A.they don’t like to live in the rural Kansas |
B.there are not many girls in the rural Kansas |
C.they found their soul mates in cities |
D.the life in rural Kansas is so hard |
A.Salina has a population of 500,000 |
B.a quarter of all physicians in Kansas are too old for the ideal doctors |
C.William Cathcart-Rake heads a new program in rural Kansas |
D.Educating more doctors in cities can settle the problem |
A.Because she found her soul mate in rural Kanas. |
B.Because she likes to work as a doctor. |
C.Because she grew up in a town of 6,000 people. |
D.Because she likes the size of the program. |
A.To make it known that it lacks doctors very much in rural Kansas. |
B.To introduce a program handling the lack of doctors in rural Kansas. |
C.To train students to become doctors for rural Kansas. |
D.To meet the demands of doctors for many rural towns in Kansas. |